There is always something else to do. Another project or work that will take priority if I let it. It’s probably the same for everyone. We say we will carve out time for ourselves and that we will highlight, block out, mark as out of office for the time that we...

When we think about being a school librarian we often think of the children. That’s what we got in the librarian game for if we’re school librarians. We want to provide excellent content. We want to give them just the right book for their interests or to...

The Hate You Give by Angie Tomas and Kekla Magoon’s How It Went Down are two hard reads, but they are necessary to the current conversation around black children and where they see themselves. These are two books that help those in more physically comfortable...

I’m going to write more on this later, but I firmly believe that finding the way to help a child love reading is about knowing the child. When we get to learn their internal motivations and what excites them, we’ll be able to find the book that gives them...